Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1935 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pubisihed Every Evening Except Sunday by r HE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur. Ind.. Post Office as Second Class Matter. /. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse. Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 15.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 31.00 Six mouths, by mail.. — 1.75 One year, by mail —... 3.00 One year, at office.. 8.00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones Elsewhere 33.50 one year Advertising Rates made known on Application. — National Adver Representative SCHEERER, inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailiee. It nears the time when you can say. Merry Christinas. "It is more blessed to give than to receive," which is the way all Good Fellows feel about it. Give some thought to making 1936 a great year in Decatur. Help plan the Centennial celebration,; cooperate with industry and offer suggestions which mean for coni- i munity progress. The stores will remain open evenings next week. If unable to shop during the day. don't neglect doing it after supper and clear the way for a happy celebration of, Christinas over the week-end. Decatur extends a welcome to Rev. Homer Aspy, new pastor of the First Baptist church. We know he'll enjoy his residence here, his work among his congregation and i the friendly neighbor spirit which is demonstrated by our people. Come on. loosen up. The Good Fellows need a couple hundred dollars more in order to assure Santa Claus' visit to the home of' the needy on Christmas Eve. A j few dollars now win help and the ' sponsors of the club will be able to purchase clothing and other needed articles for the children. Bruno Hauptmann has been sentenced to die January 13th for the murder of Baby Lindbergh. His attorneys are insistent they will continue the tight to save him, but the net seems to be drawing closer and if they really have aoy worthwhile evidence, it’s time o get it out and present it to proper sources. Paulino Uzcudun. (easier to write than pronounce) the Spaniard. lasted only four rounds in his encounter with Joe Louis, the Detroit chocolate drop Louis hooked a terriiic right to his oppon-1

BUY CHRISTMAS f 4: ts rz «B |re«iisß X > jfT< Paul Revc re was WjjmMCR 0 secret courier v sJjFrW before the first «Tx" t Continentol V> jg—j Congress. - ■ ’<> SHOPPING DAYS Q TO CHPISTMAS Shortly before the American Revolution proposals were made to set up an American postal service independent of Britain, which taxed the existing postal system. The secret committees that existed at that time had need o( trustworthy couriers to carry their inesStages. Perhaps the most famous of these was Paul Revere who is reported to hit v e carried important dispetches trmn Boston through New York to Philadelphia in 1774.

ent's face and down be went. The sport fans were right in pointing the danger to Louis' success us being no man could stand up before him. t ' Officials of DePauw and Butler ; deserve commendation for the ! agreement which ends the athletic 1 rift of the last six years and prot vldes .for renewal of competition |in all intercollegiate sports. That , step has been the hope of Hoosier I sports fans. It will greatly stimu- * late athletic interest and thus ’ prove beneficial to both schools. , Both have suffered from the lack of this typical Hoosier rivalry.— Indianapolis Star. The public likes the colored Christmas lights. Hundreds of favorable comments have been heard and some have taken the i time to write and express their appreciation. With one of the finest municipal plants in the state, a live business district and a great community there is no reason why Decatur should not be in ‘‘good dress" for the Christmas holidays. We hope each year the system of j decorative lighting grows a little I better. Bids submitted by contractors and manufacturers for enlarging J i the building and furnishing a tur- | bine and other equipment at the t City Light, and Power plant have been forwarded to the PWA office i for approval. Formal contracts will be awarded as soon as approval is given and work will start immediately. Engineers on the job assure city officials and the | council that the equipment speci-! lied is the finest made and when i installed will make for a more efficient operation of the city utility and at the same time lower

i operating costs. I The nation has a blood stained motor vehicle record tor this year. • A million injured and nearly forty thousand killed. Those who are working on plans to reduce this, declare that thousands of the acci- - i dents occur because drivers feel : they have the right of way and! that the other fellow must slow, iup or stop or take the conse- 1 quences. The trouble is that you must take them with him. A drive will be made all over the country to reduce this terrible injury and death rate next year, but it may be well to try out the warnings to be careful the balance of this year as well. o Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the j Test Questions printed | on Page Two I 1. Palate. 2. Carbon. 3. An alloy of nickel and titeel. 4. French explorer and mieeionary in America. 5. Oregon. "■ Seventy-five and seventy-sec-ond. 7. It is a teritory administered by the British Government under a

mandate from the League of Nations. 8. Famous violin maker. A detailed lust. schedule, or enumeration in writing, a goods and chattels, credits land debts, and tsometimca also of lauds and tenements, 10. Yes. o— Adams County Memorial Hospital j ♦ ♦ Tl<e following patients were dtomieeed from the hospital Friday. j ennetn Newport. It Ft 2 Monroeville, ind. Gabriel Springer, R. R. 1 Ossian.' Indiana. | Mrs. Ream Huffman. Rockford, O. Mrs. William Linder, Monroeville, Indiana. Louis Staub, son of Mr and MrsSylvester Staub, R. R. 5 Decatur was admitted Friday as a patient — - Owl Roosts With Chicken? Hood River. Ore.— (CP) —Poultryman Charles Goddard was surprised to find an old horned owl roosting among his chicaene He saw that none of his dlf'.'kens was missing or harmed. He woke up the owl and released it. 0 Another shipment Robes 1 just arrived. $5.95 to $8.95. —Vance & Linn.

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DISPELLING THE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

San Francisco. Dec. 14—The t newspapers here are discussing < the contest between Ex President., Hoover and Governor Merriman i for control of the California dele gation to the Republican National! Convention next year. It is a trifle confusing, for the i field captains of both forces disclaim bids for the presidential by either of the piThcipaTS, and out i siders are told —vague.y —of a de- : sire to dictate the appointment of the next National committeeman ' I from this state. The idea is that ] ine ".“tonal committeeman will i control the paronage, when, and j if, there is a Republican President. It would appear tnat tne Gover- i nor has a little edge on the situa 1 tion. inasmuch as so far all com- < promise proposals have emanted i from the Hoover side. The proffer > i was to give the delegation half! i and half to Hoover and Merriman. ! < with the understanding that the -1 Ex-President should direct how ', the delegation would vote, as it 11 affects the nomination of a can-; didate, while the Governor was to i have the say as to the National i Committeeman. The Hoover peo- i pie are even willing, according to ’ the newspaper stories, to let the | Governor have a favorite son complimentary vote. The Governor's - board of strategy turned this down I and now it appears that the Hoov->1 erites have withdrawn their proposition and are prepared for a drag out fight for the whole works in the May primaries. It looks to a fellow on the sidelines as if .Merriam was annoyed that his candidacy should be deprecated in this fashion, and that he. wants an honest to goodness shot at the nomination, on the theory that his claims and chances are as good as anybody's in the scramble among the stand-patters and Progressives. This may seem like a tall order for a man who * was elected Governor only because California had a conniption fit by reason of Epic Sinclair’s Demo-! cratfc candidacy last year. It is hardly likely that Governor Merriman seriously think that nomination means anything in the way of election to the Presidency. California is generally concede to Roosevelt, but a nomination would be a fine decoration for any Republican politician, and most useful ’ in advancing his political ambi-. tions in his own state. Merriman is in the same claws as Lundon of Kansas, Hoffman of New Jersey, Nice of Maryland and ‘ in fact every one of the eight Republican Governors who have survived the Roosevelt landslide, not' to speak of the half-dozen Senators who —like Vandenberg. ’Dick-, fnaon of lowg. or Arthur Robinson • of Indiana—ere m same post-1 tion- Incidentally, I doubt if there’ is one of these, with the exception of Borah of Idaho, who would not \ jump at the Vicc-Prcsideutial num-' ination. it is almost classical thui j aspirant for the lesser honor bid' first for the big job. in this California embroglio,,

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there is apparent no enthusiasm either for Mr. Hoover or the Governor The newspaper generally follow the lend of the Hearst press. They confine their comments to denunciation of President Roosevelt and give more space both editorially and in their news columns to the aspirations of Eastern Republican candidates than to those of the home products. I have not noted one conspicious newspaper that has shown any excitement for or against either of the competitors, which is rather a strange exhibition of lassitude in the temperamental Golden State. Mr. Hoover continues his forays into the East. The newspapers out here generally chronicle his speeches on their inside pages. Occassionally there is a languid presentation of the tact that he has been conferring with some of the other i entries in the race, or has san on the same platform with the high priests of the ancient regime in New York or elsewhere. He drifts in and out of San Fran- i cisco, unnoticed and unsung. No: delegations bother to see him off; ' no bands, or crowds assemble toi welcome his returns. This is no way to treat a favor ite son engaged in high emprise. In fact the neglect of the convcn-1 lional in this regard leads to the suspicion that the Hoover machine I is amateurish, to put it mildly. It I is a political tradition that the i candidate of a state, let alone a' national candidate, must be per-; mitted to move nowhere without I a demonstration to impress thel world with the hysterical enthusiasm of his supporters. If it does not come spontaneously, it is the job of the organization to supply it. Then the news reels can be kept busy showing how militant and fierce is the popular desire for the candidate, and so provoke or en- ' courage similar manifestations else where lu every pre-conveption campaign we have at least one of these he- , roic figures. Then it is the business of his organization to see to it that the resistless demand of the populace arrives according to schedule. In the interim, the selfeffacing patriot may go around making speeches and isaunig statements that may have the appear i ancc of bidding for a nomination, , but his friends explain that such 1 is not the case. It is merely that his concern for liis‘ country, and his interest in his party, forces ; him to hold himself in a position to so control the convention that it will not make a mistake, either in nomination or in platform. It is a formula that never varies. So I say that Mr. Hoover's organ- ■ izaiion, ar group, or band, or what, | ever you may call it, is lying down ' on its job. It is letting the hypothetically disinterested candidate do all the work. Perhaps there is la new strategy being employed Here I get the rumor that tho , spade work which generally coi;>ists in harvesfiftg the Southern delegations—particularly the color-

ed section in states where the Republican vote barely exceeds the number who can quality for jobs —and who are ordinarily delivered in iiackages, is under way. If this should happen to be true, it is thefirst practical thing that has been done in Mr. Hoover's behalf? This sort of thing requires quite a bit of money. It can hardly be a cash on delivery transaction, much less be achieved by promises of jobs in a case where the ability to furnish jobs is not more promising than the Republican prospects at this time. it goes without any necessity for demonstration that when the G. O. P. standard bearer is definitely selected there will be no paucity of campaign funds. Any outfit that could toss in a couple of Trillions in the effort to defeat one single bit of New Deal legislation could be counted on to shoot the works when the time comes. But the men with the big money bugs are a canny crew, and it doubtful if many of them woifM be willing to put their monejf on an entry likely to be scratched. They would ordinarily suggest that Mr. Hoover finance himself for the present. If he gets to the pest it should, and probably will ->e, different. , o * MAGLEY NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bieberich and Mu. Mary Wilson and daughters Mary Jane and Norma Jean of Decatur spent Saturday in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hildebrand and daughter Marie and non Carl, Mrand Mrs. Walter Hildebrand, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bracht, Grandma ,-iildebrand and Henry Hildebrand were supper guewts of Mr. and Mrs. William Kruetzman and family Sunday. Mr- and Mrs. Edward Jaberg and daughter Donna Ruth and Marilyn anu cbristena Borne were dinner i guests of Mr. and Mrs Christ Borne and family Sunday. and Mrs. Arthur Frucjitc wore dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Fruchte and family Sunday. Mt’. Gettys Parmer and daughter j Mabel of near Ossian and Charles Suttles of Couueautte Ohio, visited Mr<. Edward Kvlter MondayMrs. August Limenstall veiled Mrs. Oscar Beibcrich Monday evening. Miss Norma Jean Wilson of Decatur in spending the week with Mr. I and Mrs. Oacar BeiberichMr. and Mrs. Edward Hower of Decatur were dinner guests and Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Kell and family of Van Wert Ohio wore afternoon guests of Mr. and Mr#. Charlee Oettinger Sunday. COURTHOUSE Real Estate Transfers Loie Graham administratrix to Charles H. Enyder lot 611 in city of Decatur, M 55.56. Lois Graham to Decatur Savings and Loan Association lot 1007 in city of Decatur. $1056,36Chas H. Snyder to John E. Johnson Pt. Sec. 6 Mcnroe townehip, sl.

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CHRISTMAS iu the Rockies! I felt thrilled, excited, as our train wound Its way in and out through the mountains, thundering through the crisp, pinescented air. Now. we were climbing an almost precipitous grade, now, slowing down for a dangerous curve, while every little while as a stretching plain was reached, the steady hand ti|x»n the throttle sent the long line of cars speeding like an arrow through the bright December sunshine. We were on our nay to spend Christmas with Uncle Jerry and Aunt Emma. They had sent a hearty Invitation for us to come

ou t. and no w we were almost there. I held my breath nt the sheer beauty of the scene that stretched before our eyes. Mountain peaks that seemed to touch the sky, canyons dropping thousands of feet, lakes covered by glittering thicknesses of Ice, vivid

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green pines, looking like giant Christmas trees. I hud never seen, never even visualised anything so beautiful.

A loud shriek from the big whistle, a slow crunching and grinding of brakes, and our train came to a stop. Uncle Jerry, rosy and smiling, stood waiting upon the platform, giving dad, mother, Helen and myself a true western welcome. "Aunt Emma is all excited about your coming." lie beamed. A short drive through a wonderland of beauty, and the big sprawling ranch house came in sight Aunt Emma stood in the doorway, and a cowboy, who was grooming a pony, looked curiously at us, Al! was bustle and excitement, hurry and preparation Even the horses and ponies in the corral seemed excited, as it they sensed . something in the air. The after- | noon and evening went by on wings, i Christmas morning dawned mam a world that looked even lovelier than it had yesterday. A million jewels hung on bush and tree, a sky of turquoise stretched itself across the enow-covered mountains and valleys. Inside the ranch house a fire of crackling logs threw its ruddy glowover the living room. The dining table was spread with tempting foods. Breakfast of home-cured ham and sausage, Huffy tiupjacks and syrup, steaming hot coffee with thick cream. Then a short drive to the little •fknrch an inspiring talk by the

pastor, and the strains of the old and beautiful Christmas hymns; neigh bors aud friends stopping Uncle Jerry and Aunt Emma to wish them 'll er r y Christma*” Back a<a I n through ’he clear, frosty air, and later the big Christinas d 1 irfier. Golden-

brown turkey nud dressing on a big blue platter, a huge mound of snowy potatoes, native vegetables and relishes, tempting pieces of mince and pumpkin pie. And best of all, an appetite that only the mountains can give. A hundred things to see during the afternoon, tlie horses and ponies, the ranch equipment, the silver fox farm that Vm.it /ferry had started, and a special show the cowboys put on for our benefit. Food again in the evening, and after, a happy time around the tire. The cowboya standing around the piano, where Helen played the old Christmas carols, their lusty voices joining in the beautiful words. I thought of the beautiful setting outside as they sang: Silent Night, Holy Night! AU is call::, al! Is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender a.id niiM. Sleep in heavenly peace! 1 stole outside sot a few minutes as they went on to the next lines. A new moon was sending its silvery light down upon the world, a million stars added their stnaller gleam. Around ma I felt the faint mysterious noises of night in the open places, the stirring of unseaa, unknown things. My lips and heart joined in the words that floated out from the v.arm, lamp-lit room- | Silent Night, Holy Night! Shepherds quake at ths sight! Glories etieam from heaveu afar, Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia; | Christ the Saviour is born! f bas e ipeut •waeiy a happy aud | memorable Chi Utma». but nmer one | as, v oodsrtul. as unforgettable- as. this Christmas spent in the Rockie*. £i Weatern New»p*per Union.

The People’s Voice ’ his column for the ise of oui readers who wish to make «u K wewtlons for the general good >i discuss questions of inter aet "*lease sign your name to show authenticity It will not i be used If you prefer that ti not ba Decatur, 40 Years Ago These dreary rainy days we have been having for some time past, reminds the writer of the first winter spent in Decatur. That was 40 years ago. It rained nearly all of November and December up until a few days before Christmas, then Christmas eve the ground was frozen hard and we had what they call a green Christmas, no snow. So much rain and mud was something new to me for I had just come from a state where the soil was sandy. It could rain hard there for a day and a night and then we would not *ave as much mud as we get here after a few hours rain. Forty years ago Tenth and Eleventh street were terrible, just mud. Why a grocery delivery wagon would go hub deep in mud on either one of these streets, and the street lighting system was very scant at that time. It sure was a wet winter, and I thought Decatur was the poorest town 1 ever was in. But I now think quite a lot of it. Sue has made some wonderful improvements these last few years and her people should be proud of her. She has many miles of good streets and her lighting system Is the best ever, to say nothing of her factories and her modern home improvement, and she is ever ready to boost any plan that will add to her own good. When I first came here the Schaffer home, corner of Fifth and Monroe street, the Adams home on Mercer Avenue, were pointed out as the swellest homes in Decatur. But now there are ever so many more large and all modern homes here. Forty years ago my brother, a printer, worked for Norm Black burn, then later he was with the Lew Ellingham paper until the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted and was bugler for Co. B 160th regiment. When the war was over he came home and again worked in the printing office of the now Dtfiiy Democrat —it was

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